Cirque Alfonse Coming to Kingsbury Hall, 2/4

UtahPresents brings a new cast of acrobats to Salt Lake City, whose sense of fun and humor is as abundant as their beards. Taking inspiration from the woods surrounding their own real-life family farm, Cirque Alfonse's talented tumblers and musicians create a crazily unique acrobatic experience set in the world of loggers and traditional Canadian farm life. There are balancing acts on tree stumps, banjo sounds and men with bushy beards performing synchronized axe juggling - with real axes.

Cirque Alfonse will perform Timber! at Kingsbury Hall on Thursday, February 4 at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $19-$39, with a $5 ticket for U of U students, a $10 ticket for non-U students and youth under 18, and a family 4-pack for $65, and are available at 801-581-7100 or utahpresents.org.

Cirque Alfonse is a young circus company from Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez in the province of Quebec, established in 2005. Its founding members have all worked with some of the most renowned "nouveau cirque" companies around the world. This young company is comprised of a team of professional acrobats graduated from the École nationale de cirque de Montréal, as well as a professional dancer, an ex-skiing champion and three talented and versatile musicians. This brave and creative group of young performers is blazing a creative path that no one has yet dared to explore, blending the arts and techniques of the circus and infusing them with the most picturesque facets of traditional Quebec folklore.

You can almost smell the fresh-cut pine logs and the sweat of lumberjacks as you watch them jiving to a traditional folk soundtrack. The young circus troupe hails from a small town called Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez and they have clearly drawn upon their country roots to find inspiration and energy for this unique creative project. Timber! is clearly off the beaten track. The show's creators designed unusual acrobatic apparatus inspired directly from the forestry resources available on their real-life family farm. The experience feels and smells authentic. The artists perform incredible feats of aerial acrobatics that are directly inspired by the natural raw materials of the forest and the equipment used on the farm. The atmosphere is hyper-festive. The talented acrobats and musicians create a colourful, energetic scene where we can witness epic feats of agility and strength, inspired by the exploits of the first North-American lumberjacks, loggers and farmers.

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